Rightlessness : testimony and redress in U.S. prison camps since World War II /
"In this bold book, A. Naomi Paik grapples with the history of U.S. prison camps that have confined people outside the boundaries of legal and civil rights. Removed from the social and political communities that would guarantee fundamental legal protections, these detainees are effectively righ...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2016]
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| Series: | Studies in United States culture.
UNC Press law publications. Civil rights and social justice. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "In this bold book, A. Naomi Paik grapples with the history of U.S. prison camps that have confined people outside the boundaries of legal and civil rights. Removed from the social and political communities that would guarantee fundamental legal protections, these detainees are effectively rightless, stripped of the right even to have rights. Rightless people thus expose an essential paradox: while the United States purports to champion inalienable rights at home and internationally, it has built its global power in part by creating a regime of imprisonment that places certain populations perceived as threats beyond rights. The United States' status as the guardian of rights coincides with, indeed depends on, its creation of rightlessness."-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 313 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |